{"id":38544,"date":"2014-08-07T17:01:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T21:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=38544"},"modified":"2021-05-07T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T13:42:24","slug":"trading-made-easier-ssys-thor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/trading-made-easier-ssys-thor","title":{"rendered":"Trading Made Easier- $SSYS $THOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trader Development has started for our newest class of traders. After they complete the SMB Foundation, they trade live and\u00a0take Trader Development. We are making a special effort with this class to keep things simple.<\/p>\n<p>If you were teaching someone to play basketball would you teach them first how to make turnaround 3 point shots? No you would have them work on layups and 15 foot jump shots. The same should be true with trading for the new and developing trader.<\/p>\n<p>In Trader Development we start with The Fundamentals Trend Trade. We search for stocks who have announced significantly different fundamentals and look for setups to trend trade them. Today that meant $SSYS (raised guidance for the full year), $THOR (lowered guidance for the full year).\u00a0 Specifically that meant getting long $SSYS on the open and getting short $THOR.<\/p>\n<p>Traders know which stocks to trade.<br \/>\nTraders know which direction to trade the stock.<br \/>\nTraders just have to search for entries where they can control their risk.<\/p>\n<p>Traders then study these trades after markets close.<\/p>\n<p>Compare this to the befuddled new trader. What stocks should I trade? Should I trade this long or short? What is the trade I am making? That is a great deal of confusion to counter while trying to make good trades in the lightening fast real-time.\u00a0 And what do they study after the close?\u00a0 How confused they were during the trading session?<\/p>\n<p>Think about making your trading easier.<\/p>\n<p>*See more examples of making your trading easier from SMB Partner, Steve Spencer below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38546\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ssys.jpg\" alt=\"ssys\" width=\"576\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/thor.jpg\" alt=\"thor\" width=\"567\" height=\"423\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Related Posts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/i-am-a-simpleton\">I am a Simpleton<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/a-simple-tape-trade-spls\">A Simple Tape Trade<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/so-simple-yet-missed-by-so-many\">So Simple Yet Missed By So Many<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;You can be better tomorrow than you are today!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mike Bellafiore is the Co-Founder of SMB Capital and SMBU, which provides trading education in stocks, options, forex and futures. Bella is the author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Good-Trade-Competitive-Proprietary-ebook\/dp\/B003VIWRJA\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1396299609&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=The+PlayBook+one+good+trade\">One Good Trade<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Playbook-Inside-Think-Professional-Trader\/dp\/0132937646\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1358899059&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=The+PlayBook+mike+bellafiore\">The PlayBook<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 He welcomes your trading questions at mbellafiore@smbcap.com.<\/p>\n<p>no relevant positions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trader Development has started for our newest class of traders. After they complete the SMB Foundation, they trade live and\u00a0take Trader Development. We are making a special effort with this class to keep things simple. If you were teaching someone to play basketball would you teach them first how to make turnaround 3 point shots? No you would have them &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/trading-made-easier-ssys-thor\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":38545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4066],"class_list":["post-38544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-comments-2","tag-fundam"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trading Made Easier- $SSYS $THOR | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/trading-made-easier-ssys-thor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trading Made Easier- $SSYS $THOR | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Trader Development has started for our newest class of traders. 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